California To Receive $42 Million In Federal Fish And Wildlife Funding

Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced allocation for states’ fish and wildlife agencies, and California will receive $42 million worth of funding.

Here’s the release from Interior:

 Allocations of the funds are authorized by Congress. To date, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has distributed more than $20.2 billion in apportionments for state conservation and recreation projects.

“American sportsmen and women are some of our best conservationists and they contribute billions of dollars toward wildlife conservation and sportsmen access every year through the Pittman-Robertson and Dingell-Johnson Acts,” said Secretary Zinke. “For nearly eighty years, states have been able to fund important conservation initiatives thanks to the more than $20 billion that has generated nationwide. Every time a firearm, fishing pole, hook, bullet, motor boat or boat fuel is sold, part of that cost goes to fund conservation. The best way to increase funding for conservation and sportsmen access is to increase the number of hunters and anglers in our woods and waters. The American conservation model has been replicated all over the world because it works.”

California’s breakdown of monies applied to the state include $16,513,733 for sportfish restoration and $26,033,993 for all wildlife funds. Texas ($52 million) and Alaska ($51 million) were the only other states to receive more allocations than the Golden State.